Bottle



A. PEW. BOTTLE.

Patented Oct. l2, 1897.

(No Model.)

I WIT/VESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR PEW, OF MACON, GORGIA.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,688, dated October 12, 1897.

Application iiled January 7, 1896. Serial No. 574,583. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ARTHUR PEW, of Macon, in the county of Bibb and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottles of that class which are designed to be so sealed that their contents cannot be removed without giving ineradicable evidence of that fact, so that they may not, without detection, be refilled with an inferior or spurious quality of goods.

It relates especially to that form of bottle in which the cork stopper is permanently locked by a cross-bar or yoke extending over the cork and anchored in glass lugs upon opposite sides of the bottle-neck, which glass lugs are required to be broken off before the bottle can be uncorked.

My invention provides a packing-block, in combination with such bottle, which is designed to prevent the accidental breaking off of the anchorage-lugs while being packed or transported, as hereinafter fully described.

Figure l is a side view, partly in section, of the form of bottle to which my invention is to be applied. Figs. 2, 3, and 5 are similar views of modifications, and Fig. 4 is a detail of a packing block to prevent accidental breakage of the seat-lugs in packing the bottles.

The bottle B is provided with a neck and cork a of the usual kind, but on each side of the neck there are formed lugs or seats b b, molded of the same material of which the bottle is made and perforated to receive a metal cross-bar c, which is extended across the top of the cork, so that said cross-bar opposes the withdrawal of the cork. This cross-bar has ahead h at one end, andthe other end is screwthreaded and is provided with a nut CZ, so that when said cross-bar is fastened in placeover the cork the cross-bar cannot move longitudinally out of the perforations in the lugs. In adjusting the screw-nut to the threaded end of the bar said screw-threads are moistened with some preparation that will hasten corrosion, so that after the nut is screwed on the nut and screw-threaded end of the bar become firmly cemented together, so that the n ut cannot be turned olf. It will therefore be seen that when the cork of the bottle is thus secured it cannot be Withdrawn until the bar is removed, and this can only be accomplished' by breaking od the glass lugs b b, and this is evidence that the bottle has been opened. Hence if the bottle should be refilled the fact that the lugs are broken will advise the purchaser of the fact.

As a modiication of my invention the lugs may be molded upon the shoulders of the bottle, as in Figs. 2 and 8, and the cross-bar may be either straight, as in Fig. 2, orbowed, as in Fig. 3. If bowed, as in Fig. 3, the crossbar c must be prevented from swinging as a bail, and for this purpose side pieces c' are connected to the cross-bar and are arranged upon each side of the neck of the bottle, or that partof the bar that rests on the cork may be attened. To prevent accidental breaking of the lugs in shipment, a small block e, Fig. 4, of woodor cork, is provided and formed with a groove in its under side through which the cross-bar may pass, and has also metal points e' on its under side, which are made to penetrate the stopper of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 2. These points acts as a guard or fender to prevent accidental injury to the lugs.

As another modification of the invention, instead of projecting lug-seats, holes may be made in the neck of they bottle very near the top and the'cross-bar passed through these holes and fastened, as shown in Fig. 5. The upper part of the lugs is made smaller than the lower part, so that to open the bottle the projecting end of the cross-bar is knocked upward and this breaks o the top of the lugs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the bottle having perforated lugs on opposite sides of its neck, a cross-bar arranged in the same and extending across the stopper, and a fender-block e with metal fastening-pins secured in the stopper and projecting beyond the lugs as and for Witnesses: i

HENRY L. TIMMERMAN, JACOB WEY.

hold the block onto the bottle, andthe block 

